The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-24
TURKEY WILL BE KING.
HOW SAVANNAHIANS WILL CELE-
BRATE THANKSGIVING.
An Unprecedented Demand for thu


An Unprecedented Demand for the
Toothsome Gobbler - Thanksgiving
in the Churches, at Home and at the
Resorts - Business Generally to be
Suspended-Sportsm Take to the
Woods.
Thanksgiving has come to be st. Turkeys
day and Savannahians are wei prepared for
its observance The demand for turkeys
has been greater this year than ever, and
the gobbler whose neck had not bel
stretched lasj night is either an uncommon
ly old bird or has learned to roost high.
The poultry dealers were rushed with or
ders yesterday, and almost every kind
of fowl was in demand. ''They
come high, but we must have
'em" is everybody's motto for
Thanksgiving. There is growing taste
for turkey, which before long will place the
barnyard gobble alongside of the bald
headed eagle as the national bird.
AT THE MARKET.
The City Market was thronged with
buyers of Thanksgiving deicacies yester-
day, and the green grocers had all the
birds are fatter this year than usual, said
a dealer yesterday, land we have very little
complaint about them" The price is about
the same as it has been in former years,
though the dealers say that the price
does not affect the trade; that people who
buy turkeys will have them at any price.
The market will be open as usual this morn
ing, and the dealers are anticipating the
rush that always comes on Thanksgiving
morning. The table that does not have
some kind of fowl to-day will be poor
table indeed
THE WEATHER CLERKS POINTER.
If the predictions of the weather clerk
at the signal station prove true
Savannah will have pleasant weather.
The cold wave, which started Tuesday, has
advanced eastward as far as the Mississippi
river, where it has been checked by an area
OF low pressure and unusually high temper
allure over Tennessee and Mississippi, due to
the forest fires in that region. The temper
allure still continues in the zero neighbour
hood in the extreme Northwest. Owing to
its very slow advance, this cool snap will
hardly reach here before tomorrow, and
the temperature then will not go as low as
at first indicated. Rains are reported from
the districts in which the forest fires have
been raging, and snow storms are reported
from the Northwest, but Savannah win not
ulluulgIlU
dications were for a fair day.
HOW THE DAY WILL BE SPENT.
Savannahians observe Thanksgiving
in all sorts of ways. In the churches the
usual services will be held. At Trinity
Methodist church at IL o'clock. Rev. A. NJ
Wynn, of Wesley Monumental church, will
preach to the Evangelical congregations.
AT St Johns Rev. Charles II. Strong, will
preach and at Christ church Rev. Robert
Wilson, d. D., of Charleston will preach.
The service at the Lutheran church will be
synod Of the South. The svnodicaI
sermon will be preached at II O'Clock by
Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, of Wilmington, n.
c. After that the holy communion will be
celebrated and the synod will be organ
lied.
THE CLERKS GET A REST.
The day being a legal holiday the city
and government offices, and banks and ex-
changes will be closed, and business gener'-
ally will be suspended. The business world
keeps Thanksgiving, and it generally keeps
it well. All sorts of attractions are offered
in the city and out of it for a
days recreation. At the suburban
| resorts unusual preparations have
been made. The Savannah and Tybee rail
road will run a special schedule of trains,
| leaving the city at $50 in the morning and
2:3O in the afternoon Both hotels will be
open, and lovers of oysters can spend the
day at the beach and get home early. The
Coast Line will run a special schedule to
Thunderbolt, leaving the Bolton street juno
ton at 7:l0, 9:35, 1885 and II :45 in the fore.
noon, and at ,, 3, 4 and o'clock in the
afternoon.
THE TROTTING RACES.
The races will be the principal attraction
there. The entries closed as follows: J. l..
Mehrtens enters b. III. Allie Mike Kelly en-
ters br. m. MaggieK., M. ]. Doyle enters
b. m. Maggie D., DR.. Mathews enters b. g.
Landlord.
The Savannah Rife Association will hold
its annual oyster roast and rife match at
the Schuetzen Park aud will go out at noon.
The country will be filed with hunters.
The gun stores have been
filing orders for ammunition all
the week, and a number of parties started
out yesterday TO points in Effingham and
Bryan counties to be ready for the days
sport. Last nights predictions were that
Thanksgiving win be well observed.